THE MAIN hospital in Prince George’s County is a cramped, badly outdated money drain that has required tens of millions of dollars in public subsidies in this decade on its way to obsolescence. The decay at the Prince George’s Hospital Center has left the county of more than 900,000 people with a shortage of high-quality health care — not just an inconvenience, but a competitive disadvantage in terms of regional economic development. That hurdle, among others, was finally overcome last year when state regulators approved a new hospital. The new teaching hospital, to be known as the Prince George’s County Regional Medical Center, was scaled down from the original proposal to meet state regulators’ concerns about cost and need. Under pressure from state regulators, Dimensions was folded into UMMS as a precondition of the new center’s approval.

Source: Washington Post December 09, 2017 00:45 UTC